[Ari]

Indeed, part of the reason they went with concrete is at least there’s a chance they could mix and pour concrete on mars, but things like the water deluge suppression system are just impossible, although I think they’re getting ahead of themselves, Musk seems to be aiming for a 1950s style vision of traveling to Mars and back, when the reality is we’ve never launched off Mars before. They may be trying to solve launch problems that don’t exist on Mars while ignoring ones that do because they don’t have enough data to know any better.

Luckily Starship seems to be Musk’s playground area and hasn’t impacted any of their orbital launch abilities.